‘Music of the Republic’: a poem by Ruth Padel
Music of the Republic You were with him in his final hours… Carolyn Forché, ‘Last Bridge’ Plato put a spell …
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Two poems by Ruth Padel
This month Ruth Padel presents a major new work, Beethoven Variations: Poems on a Life, published in the 250th year of Beethoven’s birth. Below …
Tidings by Ruth Padel
The Voice of Silence I am the oldest angel, the dark side of the brain. Everything untold, suppressed, unseemly or wild is under my protection. …
Thaddeus O’Sullivan – ‘The Poetry of Making a Film’
Thaddeus O’Sullivan, edited by Ruth Padel Ruth: This essay sprang from a film-maker’s notes about directing. It has been written up by a poet eager …
Sushrut Jadhav: Connecting, Belonging and a Clean New Music
Ruth Padel In The Art of Writing, written in the 3rd century AD, the Chinese poet Lu Ji wrote about strategies for finding words which …
The Hand of Art – Czesław Miłosz: Form, Communication and Reality
Ruth Padel: It was a great pleasure, this May, to go to the 4th Miłosz Festival, in honour of one of the twentieth century’s greatest …